Disk Size

[Riaad]

@SpindleNinja  hi there, I am curious to know if you have any knowledge on how to set up NetApp volume to go pass 100Tb. I created a 100TB volume using CIFS protocol but I want a share to have at least 500 to 600TB. How can this be achieved and how would I get this CIFS share to show up in windows OS?

Thanks!

[SpindleNinja · Accepted solution]

Flexgroups are your answer. 

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.pow-fg-mgmt/GUID-A304BBC1-C00C-4E7A-989E-7C5A0E505146.html 

[Riaad]

Thanks, I appreciate that. When I finish creating the flex group and share how would that be accessible from the windows server?

[SpindleNinja]

it's accessed just like any other CIFS share.   So just your CIFS ip/share    ONTAP handles the access across all the aggrs/controllers. 

set up the SVM which sounds like you have already.  

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.exp-cifs-cfg/GUID-B4B108AA-B43D-4781-842C-84AEF488816F.html

There's also 2 FlexGroup TRs worth reading too -> 

https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4571-a.pdf

https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4571.pdf 

[Riaad]

Thanks you are the best.